Monday, March 31, 2014

Maryland’s draconian state
government suffered one more defeat announcing dissolution of its insurance
exchange. Reportedly spending more than 125 million to bring Obamacare one-step
closer to reality, failure was the final outcome for an exchange that never
was. Many media outlets have reported on Maryland’s grotesque failure, yet the
Baltimore Sun has not taken up the pen and written the final epitaph. Why the
Sun is not reporting this story may be in the fact they wholeheartedly
supported this government boondoggle. By withholding this story the inference
is the left cannot accept defeat. Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown led the
charge to flesh out this component of President Obama’s grand Ponzi scheme. Uninitiated
in the complexities of building such site was no bar to appoint Brown as its
head cheerleader. In the last few days the blame game has been afoot, with the
Democrats hiding behind their usual spin.

Governor Martin O’Malley blindly
went ahead with a project that was doomed from the start. Built on algorithms
whose equations required a younger crowd to sign up for insurance, the mix of
applicants has been the antithesis of expectations. Over 49,000 had applied
through last week, yet the state has not revealed how many were paying
customers. Since its incipience on October 1st 2013 a series of
glitches continued to plague the system. Even with the purported fixes the
Exchange could not sustain the heavy usage necessary to make it successful.
Already released from their contract the management company responsible for this
catastrophe may face investigation from the feds. Does O’Malley have the wherewithal
to sue for return of State Funds is only a conjecture at this date?

President Obama has
changed the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act 38 times by most
accounts. Deadlines have been extended, levies have been delayed and mandates
put off into the distant future. As Obamacare unravels, very blue states, such
as Maryland, refuse to see the obvious. They are fighting their own futures by
wasting money to keep this leviathan from being finally buried. As O’Malley
looks towards Washington and Brown towards the State House remember their sheer
incompetence as you consider your next vote.

Mark Davis, MD President
of Healthnets Review Services and Davis Book Reviews.

Maryland’s draconian state
government suffered one more defeat announcing dissolution of its insurance
exchange. Reportedly spending more than 125 million to bring Obamacare one-step
closer to reality, failure was the final outcome for an exchange that never
was. Many media outlets have reported on Maryland’s grotesque failure, yet the
Baltimore Sun has not taken up the pen and written the final epitaph. Why the
Sun is not reporting this story may be in the fact they wholeheartedly
supported this government boondoggle. By withholding this story the inference
is the left cannot accept defeat. Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown led the
charge to flesh out this component of President Obama’s grand Ponzi scheme. Uninitiated
in the complexities of building such site was no bar to appoint Brown as its
head cheerleader. In the last few days the blame game has been afoot, with the
Democrats hiding behind their usual spin.

Governor Martin O’Malley blindly
went ahead with a project that was doomed from the start. Built on algorithms
whose equations required a younger crowd to sign up for insurance, the mix of
applicants has been the antithesis of expectations. Over 49,000 had applied
through last week, yet the state has not revealed how many were paying
customers. Since its incipience on October 1st 2013 a series of
glitches continued to plague the system. Even with the purported fixes the
Exchange could not sustain the heavy usage necessary to make it successful.
Already released from their contract the management company responsible for this
catastrophe may face investigation from the feds. Does O’Malley have the wherewithal
to sue for return of State Funds is only a conjecture at this date?

President Obama has
changed the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act 38 times by most
accounts. Deadlines have been extended, levies have been delayed and mandates
put off into the distant future. As Obamacare unravels, very blue states, such
as Maryland, refuse to see the obvious. They are fighting their own futures by
wasting money to keep this leviathan from being finally buried. As O’Malley
looks towards Washington and Brown towards the State House remember their sheer
incompetence as you consider your next vote.

Mark Davis, MD President
of Healthnets Review Services and Davis Book Reviews.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Maryland’s legislature is
exuberantly moving forward with proposals to force medications on unwilling
patients. New laws under consideration are coercion tactics to medicate both
inpatient and not hospitalized individuals who may be subject to psychological
stress. How the judicial arm of Maryland government will interplay with these
potential legislative efforts is yet to be determined.

National debate reached a
crescendo concerning the mentally disabled amongst us after the massacre inside
Sandy Hook Elementary School. Adam Lanza, mentally challenged for years,
finally went berserk taking 27 lives then his own. Multiple psychiatric
ailments were attributed to Lanza who received treatment for them intermittently
from the time he was in elementary school. Adequacy of therapy was the central
theme in the aftermath of this egregious event. Lanza could not be forced to
take pharmaceuticals to control his behavior. With new laws under consideration
that scenario may change.

Division in the medical
community on forced medication protocols for those with the gamut of mental
illnesses is significant. Many questions need to be answered to satisfy the hordes
of practicing physicians who will be called upon to apply these therapies. Is
informed consent necessary? Will the Maryland’s Attorney General Office be
waiting with a noose if the doctor does not believe and or apply the therapies
within the protocol? Maryland’s Board of Physicians: where do they stand on
this issue?Are physicians protected
against malpractice suits when the patient objects to being drugged? Who writes
the standards of care for this exploitation of the patient, lawyers or
physicians? The list of questions is long and involved. Maryland Physicians are
fully aware the legal community will benefit most from this State overreach
into its citizens’ lives.

Proof that intensely
medicating people will reduce levels of violent crimes has yet to evolve.
Draconian measures under consideration are reminiscent of controls utilized in
the most undemocratic of societies. Worse, in the event this egregious
legislative effort is allowed to breathe, what next? School children who are
not already taking psycho-tropics could be forced on to them or be expelled.
Once this door is opened, bureaucrats may enforce these drugs on an array of
people. Before legislation of forced medicating people is placed into effect
studies need to be performed and or reviewed to justify this approach. Maryland’s
legislature does not have the cerebral ability to either justify this move or
the integrity to make it work for those who will potentially benefit most.
Perhaps our legislators should take a tour of the State Constitution and its
big brother in the federal domain before the few rights Marylanders have left
move off into the sunset.

Mark Davis MD, President
of Davis Book Reviews and Healthnets Review Services.

Maryland’s legislature is
exuberantly moving forward with proposals to force medications on unwilling
patients. New laws under consideration are coercion tactics to medicate both
inpatient and not hospitalized individuals who may be subject to psychological
stress. How the judicial arm of Maryland government will interplay with these
potential legislative efforts is yet to be determined.

National debate reached a
crescendo concerning the mentally disabled amongst us after the massacre inside
Sandy Hook Elementary School. Adam Lanza, mentally challenged for years,
finally went berserk taking 27 lives then his own. Multiple psychiatric
ailments were attributed to Lanza who received treatment for them intermittently
from the time he was in elementary school. Adequacy of therapy was the central
theme in the aftermath of this egregious event. Lanza could not be forced to
take pharmaceuticals to control his behavior. With new laws under consideration
that scenario may change.

Division in the medical
community on forced medication protocols for those with the gamut of mental
illnesses is significant. Many questions need to be answered to satisfy the hordes
of practicing physicians who will be called upon to apply these therapies. Is
informed consent necessary? Will the Maryland’s Attorney General Office be
waiting with a noose if the doctor does not believe and or apply the therapies
within the protocol? Maryland’s Board of Physicians: where do they stand on
this issue?Are physicians protected
against malpractice suits when the patient objects to being drugged? Who writes
the standards of care for this exploitation of the patient, lawyers or
physicians? The list of questions is long and involved. Maryland Physicians are
fully aware the legal community will benefit most from this State overreach
into its citizens’ lives.

Proof that intensely
medicating people will reduce levels of violent crimes has yet to evolve.
Draconian measures under consideration are reminiscent of controls utilized in
the most undemocratic of societies. Worse, in the event this egregious
legislative effort is allowed to breathe, what next? School children who are
not already taking psycho-tropics could be forced on to them or be expelled.
Once this door is opened, bureaucrats may enforce these drugs on an array of
people. Before legislation of forced medicating people is placed into effect
studies need to be performed and or reviewed to justify this approach. Maryland’s
legislature does not have the cerebral ability to either justify this move or
the integrity to make it work for those who will potentially benefit most.
Perhaps our legislators should take a tour of the State Constitution and its
big brother in the federal domain before the few rights Marylanders have left
move off into the sunset.

Mark Davis MD, President
of Davis Book Reviews and Healthnets Review Services.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

While the majority of the
population slept our misdirected government engineered major changes to their legacy
legislative effort, Obamacare. Most startling of the alterations, many will be
able to keep their traditional plans intact deep into 2017. Thirty other changes,
through Executive edicts, have been implemented to make this egregious law more
palatable to voters in 2014 and subsequently for the presidential election in 2016.
Driven by political considerations candidates running for Democrat seats in the
House and Senate are running away from this catastrophe in evolution. Many
ardent supporters of Obama are having second thoughts concerning his agenda, as
the President tweaks the legal nightmare he has inflicted on the nation. Dozens
of mandates have been modified, extended and or simply circumvented to keep the
Affordable Care Act afloat. Insufficient numbers of paying subscribers have
signed up in the Exchanges. Reportedly four million have enrolled. Those in the
know question the mix of this group. White House officials are mum whether
these new Exchange patrons have been moved off Medical Assistance to this
newest of subsidized programs. This leaves a small window of possibility that a
few paying customers joined. Many are asking the question whether the
Affordable Care Act is on life support. Omens of failure are omnipresent.
Insurance premium nightmares are being reported throughout the country, rising
by as much as 100%. Those who have not
lost their jobs are seeing their hours cut by 25% or more. Clever means have
been purported to deny patrons of this disaster the very elements advertised by
the President and his minions. Obamacare was never about improving health care
in America. Instead it was designed to usurp one-sixth of the economy and
create a unitary payer system with the central core controlled by the Washington
D.C. bureaucracy. Confusion has been introduced
into the health system, at every level, which completely defeats its endgame,
better medical care for all. Affordable
care Act has been found to be not so affordable. From the perches of many
Obamacare is unraveling and could sink under its own weight. In subsequent
articles the dangers of Obamacare will be discussed.

While the majority of the
population slept our misdirected government engineered major changes to their legacy
legislative effort, Obamacare. Most startling of the alterations, many will be
able to keep their traditional plans intact deep into 2017. Thirty other changes,
through Executive edicts, have been implemented to make this egregious law more
palatable to voters in 2014 and subsequently for the presidential election in 2016.
Driven by political considerations candidates running for Democrat seats in the
House and Senate are running away from this catastrophe in evolution. Many
ardent supporters of Obama are having second thoughts concerning his agenda, as
the President tweaks the legal nightmare he has inflicted on the nation. Dozens
of mandates have been modified, extended and or simply circumvented to keep the
Affordable Care Act afloat. Insufficient numbers of paying subscribers have
signed up in the Exchanges. Reportedly four million have enrolled. Those in the
know question the mix of this group. White House officials are mum whether
these new Exchange patrons have been moved off Medical Assistance to this
newest of subsidized programs. This leaves a small window of possibility that a
few paying customers joined. Many are asking the question whether the
Affordable Care Act is on life support. Omens of failure are omnipresent.
Insurance premium nightmares are being reported throughout the country, rising
by as much as 100%.Those who have not
lost their jobs are seeing their hours cut by 25% or more. Clever means have
been purported to deny patrons of this disaster the very elements advertised by
the President and his minions. Obamacare was never about improving health care
in America. Instead it was designed to usurp one-sixth of the economy and
create a unitary payer system with the central core controlled by the Washington
D.C.bureaucracy. Confusion has been introduced
into the health system, at every level, which completely defeats its endgame,
better medical care for all. Affordable
care Act has been found to be not so affordable. From the perches of many
Obamacare is unraveling and could sink under its own weight. In subsequent
articles the dangers of Obamacare will be discussed.